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Lesson 6.2b: The Boston Tea Party Today we will summarize the events surrounding the Boston Tea Party.

Vocabulary • summarize – give a brief description • prompted – caused to happen • committee – group of people appointed to perform a specific service or task • correspondence – communication by exchanging letters

Check for Understanding • What are going to do today? • What prompted you to come to class today? • Does your family often work like a committee? • Why is correspondence less common today than it was in the 1770s?

What We Already Know To raise revenue and to demonstrate its authority, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts in 1767, leading to a new wave of protests in the colonies.

What We Already Know Relations between the colonies and Great Britain grew worse in the 1770s, starting with the deaths of five colonists killed by British soldiers in Boston.

What We Already Know When British merchants began suffering from colonial boycotts, Parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts. Charles Townshend

Repeal of the Townshend Acts • Parliament repealed all the Townshend Acts except the tax on tea, in order to continue demonstration of its power to govern the colonies. • Most colonists were content and believed the crisis was over.

Repeal of the Townshend Acts • Samuel Adams, however, wanted to make sure that the colonists did not forget the cause of liberty. • He helped to form committees of correspondence in various towns in Massachusetts.

Committees of Correspondence • These groups wrote letters to one another about colonial matters. • Soon these committees were exchanging letters throughout Massachusetts, as well as with committees formed in other colonies. • The committees kept opposition to the British alive by exchanging letters on colonial affairs.

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12. What were the committees of correspondence? • Colonists who helped Samuel Adams to become governor of Massachusetts • Colonists who encouraged independent action in each colony to support the British • Colonists who kept opposition to the British alive by exchanging letters on colonial affairs • Colonists who spied on the Sons of Liberty for the British government

The Tea Act • The British East India Tea Company was a major part of the British economy, but in 1773 it was facing bankruptcy. • Many members of Parliament were investors in the company, and didn’t want to see it fail. • In 1773, Parliament gave the company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade. • The tea would come to the colonies in the company’s ships and would be sold in the colonies only by the company’s merchants.

The Boston Tea Party • Colonists would have to pay the tax on the tea, which was a very popular drink in all the American colonies. • Many colonists began protests against the Tea Act, because they feared what Parliament might do next.

The Boston Tea Party Tea was not unloaded, and tea ships were blocked from landing.

The Boston Tea Party East India Tea Company agents were harassed and assaulted by the Sons of Liberty.

The Boston Tea Party • On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists in Boston boarded three tea ships. • Dressed as Native Americans, they dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This event became known as the Boston Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party • Many colonists believed that the tea party would show Britain how much they opposed being taxed without representation. • Others questioned whether destroying property was the best way to respond to British taxes. • Some colonial leaders offered to pay for the tea if Parliament would agree to end the Tea Act.

The Boston Tea Party • An angry Parliament turned down the offer. • It wanted the colonists to pay for the tea. • It also wanted the people responsible to be brought to trial. • It wanted Massachusetts to be punished.

Why did the Tea Act upset the colonists? • It raised the price of tea too high for average people to afford. • Colonists would now be forced to pay a tax on their tea. • It forced colonists to buy tea every month whether they wanted to or not. • They could no longer buy tea from the East India Tea Company, as they usually did.

13. The Boston Tea Party was prompted by the Tea Act of 1773, which • gave one British company a monopoly over the tea trade in America. • made it illegal to drink tea imported from any country other than Britain. • raised the tax on tea so high that only the wealthy could afford it. • required all colonists to buy at least ten pounds of tea per year from British merchants.

Why did several colonists dump tea into Boston Harbor? • They were trying to force the East India Company to lower its prices. • The tea was inferior in quality to what they usually bought. • It was one of several colonial protests against the Townshend Acts. • They were protesting the Tea Act of 1773.

After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament issued the Intolerable Acts. • Boston’s harbor would be closed until the tea was paid for. • The committees of correspondence were banned. • A new quartering act was put in effect. • British officers accused of crimes in the colonies would now be tried in England. • A military governor was placed in charge of Massachusetts.

Other colonies immediately offered Massachusetts their support. • They sent food, supplies, and money to Boston. • The committees of correspondence also called for a meeting of colonial delegates to discuss what to do next.

A tell B • How did the other colonies help Massachusetts? • Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

The First Continental Congress made two important recommend–ations about what to do next. • They voted for a new trade boycott with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. • They called for all colonies to begin training troops. They were not ready to declare independence yet, but were determined to stand up for colonial rights.

Why did Parliament issue the Intolerable Acts? To punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. To punish Pennsylvania for hosting the First Continental Congress. To punish New York for refusing to house British soldiers. To punish Maryland for not sending delegates to the First Continental Congress.

14. Which was NOT part of the Intolerable Acts? • The port of Boston was closed until Massachusetts paid for the destroyed tea. • A new quartering act was passed. • A military governor was installed in Massachusetts. • Newspapers throughout the colonies were banned. • The committees of correspondence were banned. • British officials accused of crimes in the colonies would be tried in England.

15. Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish Massachusetts colonists for • destroying the tea at the Boston Tea Party. • hosting the First Continental Congress. • refusing to house British soldiers. • sending delegates to the First Continental Congress.

16. What did representatives at the First Continental Congress agree to do? • They sent John Hancock on the 'midnight ride.‘ • They organized and carried out the Boston Tea Party. • They banned all trade with Britain until the acts were repealed. • They sent the 'Olive Branch Petition' to the king. • They urged the colonies to begin arming and training troops. Choose all that are true!

British Act What it Did Colonists’ Reaction banned settlement west of Appalachians colonists ignored it and moved west anyway tax on sugar and other imported goods smuggling by colonists increased colonists must house and feed redcoats colonial anger and resentment grow tax on official documents boycotts and protests; Sons of Liberty; petitions forced boycotts; anti-tax resolutions by colonial assemblies tax on tea and other imports Boston Tea Party monopoly on colonial tea trade

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